Hepatic oval cells express the hematopoi
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Bryon E. Petersen; Julie P. Goff; Joel S. Greenberger; George K. Michalopoulos
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Hepatic oval cells (HOC) are a small subpopulation of cells found in the liver when hepatocyte proliferation is inhibited and followed by some type of hepatic injury. HOC can be induced to proliferate using a 2-acetylaminofluorene (2-AAF)/hepatic injury (i.e., CCl 4 , partial hepatectomy [PHx]) prot